April 2 - A Sleeping Stone

April 2 – A Sleeping Stone

God help me I am weary

          Help me find a place just right

Like Jacob I would lie down

          On a stone to sleep tonight

It’s not just the arthritis

          That stabs me in my sleep

It’s a world that groans in agony

          For which at night I weep.

Why look with doubt on grace? Is it

          Too easy to leave so much control

Up to him who spun the universe

          And made of me a living soul?

God grant to me a sleeping stone where I

          Can rest from all the trouble in my head.

God help me trust you love me well enough

          Show me the stone that is to be my bed.

© 2020 by Tom King